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    4 months ago

    I don’t get it… if he doesn’t like gay sex why doesn’t he just stop having gay sex and call it a day

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    So we are clear on the tenets of conservatism, they believe it is perfectly acceptable for a 50 year old man to rape a 12 year old girl, but two adult men having consensual sex in private is a crime that should be punished by death.

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    When I was reading The Handmaid’s Tale couple of years ago it felt like borderline fantasy, worst possible scenario kind of thing. Now it feels like it’s maybe 5 years away.

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      Margaret Atwood specifically only included things that have already happened to women at some point in history so nobody could say it was far-fetched or out of the realm of possibility.

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      Our whole continent collectively stopped analyzing fiction as warnings or analogies for what’s real.

      Or more accurately, the line between absurd fantasy and reality was slowly eroded as politicians and officials continued to push the line into the realm of the unbelievable, that people stopped caring about the line.

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        We’ve done it! At last, we’ve successfully created the torment nexus from the classic novel “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus!”

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        Or more accurately, they dumbed down the educational system so that nobody reads books any more, just whatever propaganda they feed us on our phones.

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          just whatever propaganda they feed us on our phones.

          Not wrong at all, but I encourage everyone to stop using vague language. “They” could mean a thousand different things to a thousand different people.

          Let’s call it what it is. Corporations and oligarchs. Corporations use algorithms to feed you addictive slop to keep you distracted, dumb and ill-informed so they can take over our entire ruling system and deregulate or create whatever laws they want to gain more wealth. We still have a very slim chance of shifting the narrative from a race or ethnicity war to a class war where it belongs but we have to start rallying the victims of this propaganda and we don’t get there with progressive terminology. Focus on the fact that we’re not getting anything in return for our tax money, that we’re all working harder than ever and not getting anything, that people in power are lying for money.

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    4 months ago

    I say that Pete Hegseth should be banned from life. Gay folk, unlike him, actually make the world a better place.

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      Peter Thiel is gay. Let’s just stop judging people’s goodness or badness from stupid things like sexuality.

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        Can’t say I was aware of his sexuality - or for that matter, of most people. All I know is that he is a shitpickle by choice.

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    This is going to make things difficult for a lot of evangelicals (but 20% more hawt.)

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    Gay people have always been with us and will continue to be with us. Stay the hell out of peoples bedrooms you damn Nazis.

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      Stay the hell out of peoples bedrooms you damn Nazis.

      Unfortunately, we have a large and wealthy class of people who believe kicking in your bedroom door and arresting you for the crime of fucking is good public policy. And until those people lose power, they will continue to fund the social and literal murder of the LGBTQ community.

      Complicating things further, we have monetized the process of stigmatizing minority groups. So not only do we have a wealthy upper class that believes in sexual prohibition. We have a profit-seeking industrial system that wants to maximize the amount of money generated through surveilling, assaulting, imprisoning, and publicly castigating members of the underclass. Until that engine of profit-seeking is destroyed, we’re going to see poor residents turned against one another in the struggle to access the enormous economic surpluses horded by the upper class.

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        The only way for them to lose power is for them to lose their life. But not enough of you Lefties own guns compared to MAGA, and you continue to vote in favor of restricting ownership in most blue/left-leaning states. So it’s not going to be well for anyone for the next fifty years.

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          not enough of you Lefties own guns

          I think you’d be surprised how many do. But guns aren’t magic. I haven’t seen anyone clearly articulate what we do with our guns that we have.

          Not the least bit because anyone bold enough to try is kicked off the site.

          Curiously enough, the 2nd amendment is less useful than the 1st

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            Curiously enough, the 2nd amendment is less useful than the 1st

            Isn’t the whole point of 2A to empower the whole people to put down a tyrannical government?

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              No. It is to empower local militias to take land from unincorporated native peoples.

              Absent the legal authority to communicate your grieveness, congregate a movement in opposition, and define your ideological tenants free from persecution, how do you build up a militia with which to resist a tyrannical state?

              Unless you’re psychic, there’s no way to mobilize a mass movement. The best you can do as a lone gunman is stocastic violence.

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          They can also lose power by being endlessly ridiculed to the point that people vomit on them the moment they are seen in public.

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            I know you’re joking, but all that will do is get you arrested and put in prison, nor fix the underlying issue that fascism keeps coming back due to pacifist dipshits are afraid to deter them with armed protests and violent rhetoric.